This study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother–son incest, lunchboxes—or obentō—that ...
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This study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother–son incest, lunchboxes—or obentō—that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. The book brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically informed ethnographic study provides an analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan.Less

Anne Allison

Published in print: 2000-01-14

This study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother–son incest, lunchboxes—or obentō—that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. The book brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically informed ethnographic study provides an analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan.

This chapter examines representations of Islam in American popular culture, focusing on movies, television, and comic books. Islam is typically represented as a problem originating from the Middle ...
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This chapter examines representations of Islam in American popular culture, focusing on movies, television, and comic books. Islam is typically represented as a problem originating from the Middle East that poses danger to the homeland. Over the past decade, however, Muslims have appeared in ever more diverse ways in popular culture, a trend that is due to several factors—the visibility of Islam since 9/11, the growing presence of Muslims in various industries, and the popularity of social media, which provides alternative outlets for the production of imagery about Muslims. Although some of the old symbols remain, they are complemented by images of Muslims that challenge the imperial narrative. Contemporary portrayals of Muslims in pop culture range from the sheiks, terrorists, and sultans of Hollywood film to the superheroes, heroines, and social revolutionaries found in comic books.Less

Monstrous Muslims : Historical Anxieties and Future Trends

Sophia Rose Arjana

Published in print: 2017-03-01

This chapter examines representations of Islam in American popular culture, focusing on movies, television, and comic books. Islam is typically represented as a problem originating from the Middle East that poses danger to the homeland. Over the past decade, however, Muslims have appeared in ever more diverse ways in popular culture, a trend that is due to several factors—the visibility of Islam since 9/11, the growing presence of Muslims in various industries, and the popularity of social media, which provides alternative outlets for the production of imagery about Muslims. Although some of the old symbols remain, they are complemented by images of Muslims that challenge the imperial narrative. Contemporary portrayals of Muslims in pop culture range from the sheiks, terrorists, and sultans of Hollywood film to the superheroes, heroines, and social revolutionaries found in comic books.